Bobby Moynihan Fanboys Over SNL

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The Daily Beast

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4.5 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

After nine seasons spent bringing lovable weirdos to life as a cast member on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Bobby Moynihan is at it again on the Tina Fey-created sitcom ‘Mr. Mayor.’ On this episode, Bobby talks about being one of the biggest SNL fans to ever make the cast, shares Donald Trump’s alarming praise of his racist “Drunk Uncle” character and reveals what made him leave the show after a presidential election season dominated by Alec Baldwin. Twitter: @bibbymoynihan and @mattwilstein | Instagram: @bibbymoynihan and @lastlaughpod Highlights from this episode and others at The Daily Beast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week's guest really knows how to commit to a character.
0:05.3	Drunk, uncle, I hesitate to say this.
0:07.8	I think you might be a little too drunk.
0:10.0	He's my president, Colin, because he's finally going to get rid of all of the,
0:15.3	all every single one of them.
0:17.5	Wait, wait, wait, don't, don't say it.
0:19.8	Crime, Colin.
0:21.9	I was going to say crime. He's going to get rid of crime, man. Oh, okay, okay. Come on. Crime perpetrated by immigrant.
0:26.0	Oh my God. Chicago every lot. So take, favorite gift me.
0:36.5	This is the Last Laugh.
0:38.8	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and that was Bobby Moynihan as drunk uncle on the night
0:44.7	Donald Trump posted Saturday Night Live in 2015.
0:48.8	Bobby spent nine seasons as a cast member on SNL, starting in the fall of 2008 when Tina Faye debuted
0:56.1	her Sarah Palin impression and ending in the spring of 2017, after a year dominated by
1:02.2	Alec Baldwin's Trump. Now he's come full circle co-starring in the latest NBC sitcom from
1:09.0	Tina Faye and Robert Carlock.
1:17.3	On Mr. Mayor, Bobby plays Jaden, the communications director for Ted Danson's Los Angeles Mayor.
1:23.7	It's the latest in a long line of lovable weirdos Bobby has created since getting his start in the early days of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York.
1:29.5	Bobby was always one of my absolute favorite people on SNL, so it was a blast to talk with him about the surreal experience
1:35.9	of joining a show that he grew up obsessing over as much as I did, and what finally prompted him to
1:42.0	move on after appearing in nearly 200 episodes.
1:46.4	All right, let's get to it.
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